Rugby players advised to cover tattoos in Japan cnn.com

With the Rugby World Cup taking place in Japan, players have been asked to wear long sleeve tops when they use public gyms or swimming pools as tattoos can be associated with organized crime in Japan…

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The artisans keeping Japan's woodblock print tradition alive cnn.com

In Japan today, only a handful of artists still practice "ukiyo-e," the printing method used to produce Hokusai's famous "The Great Wave off Kanagawa."
Source: CNN

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The Tokyo Summer Olympics marathon will be moved to Japan’s winter sports capital qz.com

Marathon runners will swap sweltering Tokyo for the cooler climes of northern Japan in the 2020 Olympics, and the capital city’s governor isn’t happy about it.
The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were …

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The Tokyo Summer Olympics marathon will be moved to Japan’s winter sports capital — Contributions qz.com

For far, far too long people have been willfully blind to the moral costs of doing business in China.
Instead, globalization and economic integration have become tools of Chinese soft power; trade ha…

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Tomoo Gokita: A Big Love www.juxtapoz.com

Regardless of unfortunate historic events and circumstances, the East and West have always had a big crush on each other.
Japan loves rock ’n’ roll and hamburgers, and, in return, the West craves, am…

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Police believe arson unlikely in Okinawa castle fire english.kyodonews.net

KYODO NEWS - 27 minutes ago - 01:20 | All, JapanPolice believe a fire that destroyed Shuri Castle, a symbol of Okinawa located at a World Heritage site, was not likely to have been caused by arson, i…

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Scenes From Japan’s Jimi “Mundane” Halloween Contest www.spoon-tamago.com

In 2014, a subculture emerged in Japan called jimi halloween (地味ハロウィン), or “mundane Halloween.” It was started by a group of adults at Daily Portal Z who “kind of wanted to participate in the festivi…

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Weathering With You [Official Subtitled Trailer, GKIDS]

GKIDS proudly presents the highly-anticipated new film from director Makoto Shinkai and producer Genki Kawamura, the creative team behind the critically-acclaimed, global smash hit Your Name. The sum…

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Nintendo’s Switch Lite Is Selling Like Crazy, JoyCon Drift Be Damned www.extremetech.com

The company revealed during its last quarterly report that it shipped 1.95 million Switch Lite consoles in the first ten days it was available.
At $199, the Switch Lite is definitely cheaper than a $…

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Nintendo Tokyo: First Japan Store Set to Open in Shibuya on November 22, 2019 blog.gaijinpot.com

In a corporate management briefing earlier this year, president Shuntaro Furukawa announced plans to launch the company’s second store, Nintendo Tokyo, in the newly refurbished Shibuya Parco shopping…

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